Abstract: A fluff cleaning truck moves along the textile machine being operated to efficiently and automatically remove fluff. The cleaning truck is loaded with cleaning members and travels along the frame of a textile machine and stops at a desired position to clean at all once desired portions of the textile machine being operated by unit of plural spindles.

Abstract: A fan located in a lower part of an inner section of the creel stand creates an air flow that extends upwardly through a cylindrical duct to a ceiling plate of the creel stand. The air then passes radially outwardly, and thence downwardly through an outer section of the creel stand to filters adjacent the bottom of the stand. One of the filters undergoes rotary movement, and fiber waste is conducted from it to a collection source by a suction device.

Abstract: A spinning machine, preferably an open end spinning machine, having a conduit associated therewith for distributing a flow of conditioned air along a predetermined flow path in which the conditioned air is caused to flow in a direction directly toward and across the rapidly rotating, heat-generating element (e.g., a rotor disposed in a spin box), with a portion of the conditioned air flowing in and around the rapidly rotating element to absorb heat from the same, and with another portion of the conditioned air flowing across the length of fibers fed to the spinning machine and across the yarn produced at the spinning machine to moisturize the length of fibers and yarn.

Abstract: A reserve-surface cleaning apparatus is used in combination with a ring-spinning machine having a longitudinally extending row of spindles each adapted to hold a roving sleeve and each formed below the respective sleeve with a respective reserve winding area and a longitudinally extending frame extending along a back side of the row and a service area extending along a front side of the row. The cleaning system has a guide rail extending on the frame longitudinally along the back side of the row of spindles, a cleaner carriage displaceable longitudinally along the rail past the spindles, and a drive for displacing the cleaner carriage longitudinally along the rail past the spindles. A set of tools on the cleaner carriage strips roving from the reserve surfaces as the cleaner carriage passes same.

Abstract: A cleaning apparatus used in a spinning machine wherein a row of grabs having seats can be engaged over tubes in respective spinning stations to remove the tubes from and insert the tubes into the respective stations has at least one nozzle directable into the seats of the grabs and a system for supplying air under pressure to the nozzle and thereby forming at the nozzle a jet that blows lint and the like from the seat into which the nozzle is directed.

Abstract: In the case of a spinning machine having a plurality of spinning stations spinning yarn from slivers and having transport devices for removing the slivers from cans and for guiding the slivers to the spinning stations, it is provided that, for the preparation of the start spinning of the spinning machine, the slivers are first deposited in receiving devices which are situated in the area of the outlet of the transport devices. Subsequently, the slivers are successively taken out of these receiving devices and are placed in the spinning stations.

Abstract: A chip collecting system for a bobbin replacing apparatus wherein roving chips and fleece are temporarily accommodated in a chip collecting chamber of the bobbin replacing apparatus through a suction pipe. Upon arrival of the bobbin replacing apparatus to a position that opposes a chip removing system, a communicating member is connected to the chip removing system to communicate the chamber to the outside, whereupon the roving chips in the chamber are removed by the chip removing system.

Abstract: A method of cleaning a yarn supply package protective pot and, preferably, a balloon limiter device of a spindle assembly of a two-for-one twister yarn processing machine with a maintenance device mounted for movement longitudinally along the machine and to each of the spindle assemblies. The methods include moving a gripper device of a first cleaning device out of the maintenance device and into the protective pot of the selected spindle assembly for gripping and moving the protective pot out of the spindle assembly and into the maintenance device, while cleaning the protective pot in the maintenance device and then returning the protective pot to the spindle assembly. When the balloon limiter is also cleaned, a second cleaning device is moved out of the maintenance device and into the balloon limiter device of the spindle assembly while the protective pot has been removed and is being cleaned in the maintenance device.

Abstract: On an open-end spinning machine having a plurality of spinning units arranged in a row, a servicing apparatus is movably arranged on which cleaning elements are provided which can be applied to the environment of an opening roller and therefore clean it. A control device is assigned to the cleaning elements which controls a first cleaning operation when servicing apparatus is moving and a second cleaning operation when the servicing apparatus is stopped. Thus, a cleaning is possible which is adapted to the moving condition of the servicing apparatus.

Abstract: A pneumatic cleaner for textile machinery adapted to travel along the length of endwise-aligned machines in which yarn spindles have whirl-cleaner blades to strip the turns of yarn from the whirl. The cleaner has exhaust tubes having at least one exhaust port for blowing cleaning air into the machinery. One of the exhaust tubes has a retractable and extendible nozzle to direct the cleaning air against each whirl-cleaner blade and to displace said blade end into engagement with the whirl of each spindle as the cleaner passes the spindle. The nozzle is extended into close proximity to each whirl-cleaner blade by the flow of cleaning air and is retracted from said whirl-cleaner blade when flow of cleaning air is stopped. The flow of cleaning air is controlled with the travel of the cleaner, so that the nozzle is retracted to avoid interfering with other parts of the machinery when it is not needed to actuate the blades.

Abstract: In a spinning machine for pneumatic false-twist spinning, a plurality of spinning points are provided which are each equipped with one drafting unit. Two air nozzles are connected behind a pair of delivery rollers of the drafting unit and are pivotable around a separate swivel shaft and are connected by a restricted guidance in such a manner that, by an actuating movement, they can be moved into servicing positions which deviate from one another.

Abstract: A spinning mill installation including an overhead conveyor system having rails for feeding and removing bobbins to and from at least one creel-less spinning machine. To provide the function of the absent creels, an array of rail elements is positioned above each spinning machine, the rail elements having detent mechanisms defining the locations of the bobbin stations, are provided in the overhead conveyor system. A cleaning device moves along an overhead rail and is provided with a driving device which also drives the bobbin carriers.

Abstract: A textile yarn processing machine, in particular a yarn twisting machine, having a plurality of spindle assembly working positions, which is enclosed on both longitudinal sides over its full height with a soundproofing cover comprising several paneling elements which are movable for partially overlapping each other. Between the paneling elements and the working positions of the machine, maintenance units are arranged, which are able to move also in the closed condition of the paneling elements.

Abstract: A suction and cooling system for a spinning frame having a plurality of spinning units arranged along a frame. The suction and cooling system includes a first collecting channel and an independent second collecting channel and exhaust means coupled to the first collecting channel and exhaust means coupled to the second collecting channel. The first exhaust means draw a first air stream into the first collecting channel from primarily the area around the drafting system of the spinning units. The first air stream comprises primarily reusable fibers and a filter may be provided for filtering out the reusable fibers. The second exhaust means draws an independent second air stream from primarily the area around the thread guiding device of the spinning units and from around the spindle drive means, thereby serving the dual function of collecting waste fly and cooling the spindle drive means. A second filter device may be provided in the second collecting channel for removing generally waste fiber fly material.

Abstract: In an apparatus for cleaning a spinning frame provided with a plurality of draft units, a plurality of cleaning units, each provided with an element for creating an air suction force, are disposed adjacent to and below the alignment of draft units in such a manner that each cleaning unit is able to suck flys deposited around a group of the draft units, a main duct is disposed adjacent to and below the alignment of the cleaning units and extended for entire length of the spinning frame, and a filter box is connected to a terminal end of the main duct, each cleaning unit is connected to the main duct, and the main duct is provided with an element allowing a passage of a part of air discharged from each cleaning unit, except at the cleaning unit located farthest from the filter box, whereby the air suction force created by each cleaning unit can be maintained at a uniform value, this apparatus is also provided with an element for cleaning files deposited on the bottom of the main duct, at predetermined intervals

Abstract: In the case of a spinning machine having a plurality of drafting units arranged next to one another which each comprise a stripping device, a cleaning device for the stripping devices is provided which can be moved along the spinning machine. The cleaning device, in each case, moves the stripping devices from an operating position into a cleaning position, in which the cleaning of the stripping device is carried out.

Abstract: In yarn processing stations, in which two yarns are withdrawn from feed yarn packages inserted on a package adapter, the problem arises that a residual yarn wind is left on the tube of a feed yarn package. To remove this residual yarn wind, the maintenance and servicing device of the present invention is provided witha rotatable, upward and downward movable gripper for the removal of the package adapter from the yarn processing station, at least one rotatably supported mandrel to receive the package adapter, a rotatably supported, upward and downward movable cutting device for severing a residual yarn wind left on a feed yarn tube, and a rotatably supported suction device for the removal of the cut residual yarn, so as to be able to perform, according to the method of the present invention, the cleaning of feed yarn tubes still carrying yarn remnants directly after their removal from the yarn processing station.

Abstract: A ring-spinning apparatus has a service carriage which can be positioned opposite a stationary waste-collection receptacle so that the mobile waste-collection receptacle of the carriage can be aligned therewith and shifted toward the stationary waste-collection receptable thereby coupling the doors of the receptacle. An actuator can simultaneously open the coupled doors to permit a pressure drop to draw lint and roving scraps collected in the receptacle of the carriage into the receptacle of the machine.

Abstract: A device for cleaning protective pots and, if need be, balloon limiters of two-for-one twisting spindles of a two-for-one twister, which comprises cleaning elements, preferably in the form of brush bars, which are arranged on a motor-driven, vertical shaft and preferably adjustable in radial direction, and which can be lowered into a protective pot and, if necessary, into a balloon limiter of a two-for-one twisting spindle, with a suction device for the removal of air laden with dust and dirt particles being associated to each cleaning device. This cleaning device can be a part of an automatic maintenance device.

Abstract: A debris removing apparatus for a textile winding machine is provided and includes an air stream channeling device, an air drive device, and a structure forming an opposite opening. The air stream channeling device includes an intake opening and a pair of wall members each having a generally planar portion extending substantially parallel to a lateral plane on which a linear travel path of a yarn lies as the yarn travels between a supply package to another yarn package at a winding station of the textile machine. The generally planar portions channel air drawn in through the intake opening by the air drive device into an air stream which travels parallel to the lateral plane toward the traveling yarn. The air stream flows around the yarn and entrains debris on and around the yarn for transport away from the yarn. The air drive device, in one aspect of the invention, includes a suction housing through which suction is applied.

Abstract: A cleaning device for cleaning a nozzle in a spinning apparatus in which the nozzle unit is supported movably and a suction pipe for sucking yarn waste is oscillatingly supported so that a suction opening of the suction pipe can be moved to a gap between the draft part and the nozzle unit moved away from the draft part.

Abstract: A sliver feeding and opening device includes an outlet opening for passage of separated fibers to the rotor and an intake opening for the intaking of sliver to be separated into fibers. An intermediate opening is disposed in the chamber of the housing of the device at a location downstream of the outlet opening and upstream of the intake opening. An air stream reduction conduit extends from the intermediate opening to the outlet passage. The intermediate opening and the air stream reduction conduit conduct air from a revolving stream of air which revolves in the space between the opening roller and the cylindrical wall of the housing of the sliver feeding and opening device to prevent the revolving stream of air from detrimentally interfering with the orderly feeding of sliver at the intake opening to the opening roller.

Abstract: The textile machine has a cooling fluid circuit for dissipating heat from the heat-emitting parts of the textile machine. The cooling circuit has a coil disposed within an air duct of the textile machine from which the air can be blown to the outside. A longitudinally extending fly suction duct may also be used for cooling the cooling fluid of a cooling circuit used to cool the motor and convertor of the textile machine. The fly duct thus serves to remove heat as well as fly from the machine.

Abstract: A multi-position rotary spinning machine includes an endless belt guided along the machine past a plurality of open-end spinning units each having a valve for operation by cam means of the belt to bring an eccentric port into and out of gas communication with another eccentric port of the valve by virtue of rotation of a rotary valve member driven by engagement of cam studs and carried by the belt with projections, respectively, of the rotary valve member.The valves can be used for providing intermittent application of purging suction to the beater trash box of an open-end spinning or to a slub collection trough of a friction spinner.

Abstract: A suction device for communicating the suction nozzles of a plurality of spinning positions of a spinning machine with suction producing apparatus includes a plurality of intermediate conduits each communicating a respective discrete group of the suction nozzles with the suction producing apparatus.

Abstract: A dust removal device for yarn supply carriers and thread guides of textile machines comprises blowers movable past the yarn supply carriers and supported on a common supporting bar. The blowers and all driven by a single common drive motor which not only rotates the vanes of the blowers but also imparts to the same the movement past the yarn supply carriers.

Abstract: The invention relates to an opening cylinder unit for open-end spinning machines. An opening cylinder (3) is mounted to transmit rotations on a shaft rotatable mounted in a bearing housing, which is covered at one front side by an axially fitted cover. The opening cylinder engages over the bearing housing forming a hollow space. In order that the hollow space can be freed from penetrated microdust in simple fashion, at least two cleaning ducts (15) disposed substantially in parallel to the axis of the opening cylinder are formed in the opening cylinder (3), which extend from the hollow space at least to one front side of the opening cylinder. The hollow space can be cleaned by these cleaning ducts using compressed air.

Abstract: Apparatus for use with a traveling cleaner for textile machines, particularly ring spinners, operable to strip yarn ends from the whirls of the spindles for the bobbins of the ring spinner apparatus. A whirl cleaner blade is pivoted to the frame of the ring spinner adjacent each spindle so that its free blade end may be displaced into engagement with the whirl of the spindle by a jet of compressed air impinged against the blade. The compressed air is supplied by a nozzle suspended from the carriage of the pneumatic cleaner to impinge against the blade. The compressed air is fed from a central junction box under the track for the carriage through the energy chain which houses the power supply cables for the carriage. From the carriage, the compressed air is piped to the nozzle positioned at the level of the spindle whirls.

Abstract: A sliver opening apparatus for separating sliver into individual fibers for feeding of the individual fibers to the rotor of an open end spinning machine includes a rotating opening roller having a hollow interior and perforations from its exterior to its interior and air flow control elements disposed in the hollow interior of the opening roller. The air flow control elements define an opening located generally adjacent the sliver intake opening and an interior hollow chamber extending from the opening, the chamber being relatively large and the opening being relatively small. When the opening roller rotates, the air flow control elements cause the fibers from the incoming sliver to project toward the opening roller for optimum separation and combing by the teeth of the opening roller.

Abstract: A residual roving clearing apparatus for clearing a residual roving remaining on a roving bobbin. The residual roving clearing apparatus comprises a bobbin holding device for rotatably holding a roving bobbin, a cutting device for cutting layers of coils of residual roving remaining on the roving bobbin held by the bobbin holding device, and a rotary brush device for clearing the residual roving from the roving bobbin. The residual roving clearing apparatus is capable of efficiently clearing the residual roving from the roving bobbin by cutting layers of coils of the residual roving along a cutting line parallel to the axis of the roving bobbin held by the bobbin holding device, and stripping off the cut layers of coils of the residual roving from the roving bobbin by the rotary brush of the rotary brush device.

Abstract: In an open-end spinning device with a spinning rotor a compressed air conduit is provided for directing an air current upon the inner surface of the spinning rotor. This compressed air conduit is connected through a stop valve to a source of compressed air. The compressed air conduit is provided with a pressure control device which can be pre-set to at least two pressure levels. The pressure control device has parallel conduits of which one conduit is provided with a pressure reduction device for the low pressure.During the preparation of the piecing operation, compressed air, at high pressure, is fed into the spinning rotor to clean said spinning rotor. Subsequently, but before the start of fiber feeding into the spinning rotor, the compressed air is reduced to a lower pressure value and is finally switched off before the yarn is fed back into the spinning rotor.The invention includes the process for restarting the open-end spinning device.

Abstract: A fiber opening device of the spinning unit of an openend rotor spinning machine, for avoiding misalignments in the connection between the front end of the sucking tube of a travelling automatic service unit and the inlet port of the spinning unit, in order to prevent false air from being sucked in at this contact point. According to the invention, a sucking tube is provided with a self-adjustable sealing head having a front sealing surface to be fitted onto the front wall of the spinning unit. In the inner space of the sealing head a partially spherical concave surface fitted onto a mating, partially spherical convex surface provided at the end of the said sucking tube.

Abstract: A cleaning system for use with a fibre opening device used in connection with the spinning of fibres into yarns wherein an opening roller is mounted for rotation in a housing incorporating a trash separation zone and a fibre stripping zone and the roller has a cylindrical working surface with combing elements projecting thereform, wherein the roller is substantially hollow and has holes in the cylindrical wall defining its working surface to permit flow of air through the wall and the interior of the roller is divided into two or more compartments, and means are provided to remove air and entrained dust and trash from a compartment adjacent to the trash separation zone, and further means are provided to insert air or other gas into a compartment adjacent the fibre stripping zone.

Abstract: In an arrangement for open-end rotor spinning having a spinning rotor which, by means of a rotor shaft, is disposed in wedge-shaped gaps formed by pairs of supporting disks and is driven by means of a tangential belt, it is provided that a cleaning element is assigned to the peripheral area of the pressure roller.

Abstract: In an arrangement for pneumatic false-twist spinning, an air nozzle, which follows the pair of delivery rollers of the drafting unit, can be moved out of its operating position after a yarn breakage. At the same time, a suction tube, which is assigned to this pair of delivery rollers, is brought into the area of the clamping gap of the pair of delivery rollers. In the normal operation, this suction tube is in a cleaning position, in which it is aimed at the circumference of a roller of the pair of delivery rollers.

Abstract: Slubs are removed from an open-end spinning chamber by the application of suction to a debris-extraction duct by a valve opened to a suction line as the chamber is opened to a suction line as the chamber is opened for cleaning.

Abstract: A spindle rotor is adapted (1) for use in a spindle of a textile thread processing machine, such as a two-for-one twister, in which the running thread being processed passes through an axially and radially extending thread passageway in the spindle and formed a rotating balloon around the spindle and includes means for supplying a flow of thread conditioning medium, fibrous material or other medium adapted to flow in a generally axial direction through the spindle and (2) to receive, guide and enhance the flow while performing the thread processing functions. The spindle rotor includes a hub member for rotatably mounting the spindle rotor in the machine spindle, a plurality of spaced-apart guide blades attached to the hub member and extending radially outwardly therefrom in a spoke-like manner for receiving the thread conditioning medium, and a radially extending thread passageway through the hub and one of the guide blades for receiving the running thread being processed.

Abstract: The invention solves the problem of ejecting impurities out of a cleaning aperture in the fiber separating device of an open-end rotor spinning unit, particularly when there are various contaminations of fibrous slivers and of different kinds of textile fibers being processed. For this purpose an air flow regulator is provided in the separating device in an air supply duct communicating with the cleaning aperture. According to the invention, the air flow regulator is provided with an air directing wall near the outlet of the air supply duct and thus directs air flow into the cleaning aperture toward the fiber opening cylinder.

Abstract: An arrangement for mounting a suction tube on a fly frame, roving frame, ring spinning machine or the like for collecting broken ends of yarn at the outlet rollers of the machine. The suction tube has a suction end and an opposite end connected through a flexible sealing sleeve to a collection chamber, with the sleeve permitting the suction tube to pivot between different positions. A mounting rod is secured to and extends between the stanchions of the machine frame intermediate the collection chamber and the outlet rollers, and a support arrangement is mounted on the rod and includes a retaining mechanism for positioning the suction tube and releasably retaining it in an operative position in which the suction end is proximal the outlet rollers and an inoperative position in which the suction end is spaced from the outlet rollers. In one embodiment the suction tube is pivotally mounted on one arm of the support and releasably retained in a slot in another arm of the support.

Abstract: An open-end spinning machine is provided which includes a cleaning element movable between two rows of adjacently aligned spinning units. The cleaning device sucks away and removes impurities from a stationary collecting device associated with impurity separation openings in opening devices of the spinning units. The cleaning device includes at least one suction element that extends into the stationary collecting element for drawing the impurities into the cleaning device.

Abstract: A suction tube for a fly frame, roving frame, ring spinning machine or the like for collecting broken ends of yarn at the outlet rollers of the machine. The suction tube is connected to a collection chamber through a flexible sealing sleeve that permits the suction tube to pivot between its operative and inoperative positions. The suction tube comprises a suction end disposed under the bottom roller of the outlet rollers that has a body portion formed with a suction opening therein, an opposite end connected to the flexible sealing sleeve, and a pair of side walls projecting upwardly from the suction end body portion toward the bottom roller and longitudinally beyond the suction opening on opposite sides of the yarn for confining the suction substantially to the bottom roller and the yarn path.

Abstract: The jacket enclosing a motor driven textile spindle of the type wherein the spindle is driven by a separate motor which is mounted on a common base with the spindle is modified to include air inlet and air exit openings. The motor is located in proximity to the spindle and is coupled to it by a toothed belt or the like. As the spindle is rotated by the motor air is drawn in through the inlet opening of the spindle and exits through the exit openings in the form of a strong stream of air which blows on and cools the motor. In this manner the spindle doubles as a fan for the motor and the necessity of providing a separate fan for the motor is avoided, resulting in savings in space and energy for driving a fan.

Abstract: The invention provides a yarn creel apparatus for the control of loose fly or lint formed when yarn is drawn from packages or cones (12) for use in a textile machine. The apparatus comprises a casing (10) within which the cones (12) are arranged on bobbin pins (11), air conduction means in the form of fans (17) to draw air into the casing from the surrounding atmosphere through at least one inlet comprising a filter panel (15) and then generally downwardly over the yarn cones to at least one outlet comprising filter panel(s) (16). The casing also houses yarn guide tubes (14) to guide yarn from the cones (12) upwardly within the casing tubes continuing through the casing wall to lead the yarns away from the apparatus. A self-cleaning version of the apparatus is also disclosed in which the filter panels (15,16) are replaced by an endless band of filter material (18) which is driven by rollers (21) past suction cleaning heads (22,23).

Abstract: A process for operation of an approximately horizontal suction duct used for removal of broken fragments of thread or roving from a spinning machine and a suction apparatus for performing that process. In the process of my invention the suction capacity of the suction duct is made adjustable for joint adjustment of the suction at all of the suction intakes connected to it. Thus to reduce energy consumption this suction capacity can be set to a considerably lower value during normal operation than during doffing or batch changing where it is desirable to use the maximum rated suction capacity. The adjusting means for changing the suction capacity of the suction duct comprises advantageously a throttling means such as an automatically controllable plate mounted downstream from the suction intakes of the suction duct or a selector switch for providing different voltages to the winding terminals of an electric motor of an air blower mechanism to directly change the suction capacity.

Abstract: An open-end rotor spinning apparatus is provided which includes at least one spinning unit having yarn deflecting elements downstream from a yarn withdrawal duct. The yarn deflecting elements deflect yarn from the yarn withdrawal duct in a yarn spinning path. The yarn deflecting elements include at least one false-twisting edge. Yarn returning elements are provided for returning a yarn end to the yarn withdrawal duct past the yarn deflecting elements in a piecing path having a deflection less than the yarn spinning path deflection.

Abstract: An open end friction spinning apparatus is provided in which there are one or more spinning units with respectively two adjacently arranged rollers, rotating in the same direction, and disposed to form a wedge-shaped slot therebetween for accepting fibers and spinning them into a thread of yarn by a friction effect. Mechanical cleaning devices are provided for cleaning the surfaces of the rollers.

Abstract: A device for removing residual fibers from perforated friction surfaces of an OE-friction spinning machine includes a suction device including a controllable cut-off element connected to a suction source, a suction tube section connected between the cut-off element and the friction surfaces, and a controllable compressed air connection disposed in the suction tube section.

Abstract: A service device in a ring spinning machine is moved after a yarn break to the appropriate spinning position to separate the broken yarn end from the winding by generating an air blast that acts on the yarn end. If the winding build-up is in a stage in which the initial winding cone has not yet been completed, the air blast is set at a high value so that a relatively strong separating force acts on the broken yarn end. If, on the other hand, the build-up of the winding cone has been completed, the separating force acting on the yarn end is less. The stage of the winding build-up is determined with the aid of a switch, which is connected to a stop member that contacts and rests on the ring rail of the spinning position. The setting of the two air blasts is performed by a switchable trottle.

Abstract: Textile slivers tend to loose their cohesion when travelling over long distances from one piece of storage or processing equipment to another such piece of equipment. This problem is overcome by subjecting the sliver to a false twisting process during its travel, desirably by a pneumatic false twister located immediately adjacent to the sliver-receiving equipment.

Abstract: A heat-insulating jacket extends around each rotating can of a doubling machine. Half way up the height of the can envelope surface, an extraction line for extracting the air heated by friction as the can rotates extends into the interior between the jacket and the can. The end-face boundaries of the rotating can and/or top and bottom closure members of the jacket are such that the pressures of the air drawn into the jacket are at least substantially equal at the top and at the bottom.